Motivational Quotes

Business

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

- David Letterman

Best Quotes about Business

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

10.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

15.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

18.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

19.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

25.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

27.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

28.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

29.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

31.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

34.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

35.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

36.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

37.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

40.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

43.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

44.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

45.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.